First Impressions: THE KEY COLLECTIVE

First Impressions: THE KEY COLLECTIVE

Welcome, May! (Summer vacation is coming — I can feel it on the horizon … yippee!)Today, I’m bringing you a First Impression from Alicia Willette-Cook – a steampunk novel titled THE KEY COLLECTIVE. She found the key under his bed.  Not that she...
April Update

April Update

Hey, everyone! Remember me?It feels like a long time since I’ve written a post or visited any blogs, but I can report that I made productive use of my month-long hiatus.  I’m feeling refreshed and ready to socialize again. I can’t wait to find...
Plot Blogfest

Plot Blogfest

How do you plot your stories?Today is Scribble and Edit’s Plotting Blogfest.  I thought I would join in, even though I’m sort of on blog “hiatus” and I’m not much of a plotter.  Even when I do write an outline — as I did...
Au Revoir

Au Revoir

No, this isn’t my entry of A for the blogfest!Since I’m not participating in the AtoZ Blogfest, I thought this would be a good month to take a hiatus from posting.  I will be here for the PlotFest on April 17th, however, which is supposed to...
Dark Shadows and the Eyes of a Four Year Old

Dark Shadows and the Eyes of a Four Year Old

When I heard that Johnny Depp was starring in a modern satire of Dark Shadows, I was moved to look up the old episodes on Netflix and revisit the show I remembered from my childhood. The original Dark Shadows was a gothic soap opera that ran from 1966 to 1971. ...